Bridge Winners Profile for Okan Zabunoglu

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Member Since

March 22, 2013

Last Seen

Feb. 16

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Bridge Player

about me

I am an academic living in Ankara, Turkey. I started duplicate bridge around 1984 when I was a graduate student at ISU in Ames, Iowa. (Thanks to the departed Harvey Burkholder, the director of Ames Bridge Club during those years.)

Nowadays, I can only make time for playing in one or two major national team tournaments in my country each year. I also help administrate the web page of my bridge club: http://www.jeofizikbric.com/web/index.php (sorry, it is only in Turkish).

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When West has the long ♣s, it looks reasonable to play ♦A, ♦K (pitching a ♥ from dummy) and ruff a ♦.
The analysis (as far as I was able to manage):
(1) When West has ♦xxxx:
Now, our ♦s are good. We cash ♥A, come to ♥K, discard a ...

I had once had a chance to play against the Schwartz Team (with Krekorian, Casen, Blanchard) at the first match in my only Spingold experience in the 1990s, and got knocked out right away. It was an unforgettable event...
My condolences to his family and friends.

Kit Woolsey:
Assuming that West has six ♠s (as implied), I don't think that (s)he can have 2 ♥s and a ♦ void.
In that case, West would have: ♠JTxxxx ♥xx ♦- ♣AKJxx, and East: Axxx ♥x ♦Kxxxxxxx ♣-.
Also, it is not likely that West would have ...

Thank you all for your valuable and interesting comments.
According to the majority view, North underbid; nevertheless, with respect to the minority view, South might have cue-bid with 4♥ (over 4♦) or started with a double rather than 3♦ overcall...
I am convinced that our bidding was ...